Farmer Fubo is open for business

Cai and Lu Yuanjin were secretly gloating when they saw that Lu Jingzhou was transferred to another place by the emperor.

But they soon stopped being happy.

Lu Huainian decided to follow his second son, so that no one would pay the rent for the house where Cai and her son lived.

What was even more terrible was that the shopkeepers also came to ask for payment for the goods. If they didn't give it, they would smash and rob things, and threatened to take women and children to pay off the debts.

Cai was very scared and hurriedly urged her son to return the things.

Lu Yuanjin was not willing to return them, and he hid outside and disappeared.

Cai couldn't find her son, and couldn't find those things. She had no choice but to use her private money to fill the hole.

When she sent everyone away, she found that her husband and the illegitimate son's family had already moved out of Ansai Mansion.

At this time, Cai didn't have much money left, and even a few valuable jewelry were left.

Looking at the group of women and children in the house, as well as several servants and maids, she suddenly felt sad.

"What sin have I committed that God wants to treat me like this?" Cai covered her face and cried.

Seeing her grandmother crying so hard, granddaughter Lu Yun wanted to comfort her, but was pushed away by Cai: "Get lost! It's all because of you unlucky people! You ruined our good family!"

Six-year-old Lu Yun was so scared that she burst into tears and was pulled aside by Song Xiyue.

Song Xiyue hugged her daughter and patted her to comfort her, while secretly swearing in her heart.

One day, she will send this old woman to the west, and it would be best if the useless man would go with her.

But before that, she has to coax the old woman to return her indenture.

Song Xiyue looked at the honest and dull Jin.

Well, for her honesty, she will keep her.

It's not that the two women can't live together. At most, they can find a man to give birth to a son to support the family.

Song Xiyue saw through it. She didn't meet a good man in her previous life, and she still didn't meet one in this life.

In this case, she will only want children and not men in the future.

Let's talk about Chang'an. She followed Lu Jingzhou to Anding City in the northwest.

This place is more and more desolate, and there are large areas of desertified land.

There are very few people living here. The population of each county is only two or three thousand, and the ten counties add up to less than 50,000.

Compared with the prosperous capital, this place is terribly desolate, with gray and yellow sand everywhere, and not much green.

Lu Jingzhou smiled bitterly and said to Chang'an: "It's Jingzhou who has troubled you and your son. I'm afraid you will suffer in the future."

Chang'an didn't say anything, and took out ten glass beads: "You ask someone to dig a reservoir. Before you go, dig two ponds in our yard."

Lu Jingzhou took the glass beads, bowed deeply to his wife, and smiled: "Thank you for your kindness, my wife."

Chang'an didn't even look at him, and ordered the servants at home to go to the market to call a few carpenters to come over. She wanted to install glass windows in all the cave houses.

The official residence of Anding Prefecture was very large, and there were several trees planted in the yard, including a persimmon tree and a jujube tree.

But the trees did not grow well, and there were signs of dying.

However, this did not bother Chang'an. He should be able to survive if he watered them more in the future.

Xiangxiang adapted to this unfamiliar environment and happily ran around the yard with her civet cat Duoduo.

Yang took a few maids to clean up the house, sweep the dust, and then put all the furniture boxes and cages they brought into the house.

Although Anding Prefecture was a prefecture, it was not as large as an ordinary county town, and there were no rivers or ponds in the city.

All the families living here dug underground wells, but there was no water in the wells. All the drinking and drinking water came from rainwater from the sky.

Due to the extreme lack of water, the people did not take a bath for many years, and because of the strong wind and sand, they were all gray and could smell a strange smell from a long distance.

Lu Jingzhou and his father went to meet the local officials and asked them to report their work.

Then they started to recruit people to build a big pond in the city.

The people were very puzzled, but they could not disobey the order issued by the government, so they had to bite the bullet and work.

Fortunately, it was autumn, and the people were not very busy after harvesting beans and millet. At this time, men, women, old and young came to dig the pond.

Some people whispered: "What's the use of digging this? Can we save water?"

"Who knows. It is said that the new prefect is from Jiangnan. I guess he doesn't know that there is very little rain here."

"Alas, people say that new officials start three fires when they take office. We finally know that his first fire is going to burn here."

"Yes, the officials are talking, and we little guys will be exhausted."

Not only did the people talk a lot, but the officials of Anding Prefecture also shook their heads and sighed.

They all told the new prefect that there was little rain here, and digging this pond was useless.

But the new prefect insisted on his own way and asked everyone to dig two large ponds in the city within a month.

"Just wait! When the ponds are dug, we will see how he ends up!"

Some people secretly thought that they would write a memorial to the capital to impeach the new prefect for deliberately harassing the people and wasting money and labor in order to establish their authority.

A month later, the pond was finally dug.

Lu Jingzhou went to check the results with his hands behind his back. He saw that the pond was terraced, with shallow edges and a circle of large stones. The deeper it dug in the middle, the deeper it was dug. The deepest point was more than two feet. He nodded with satisfaction.

In the evening, Lu Jingzhou went to the pond in person and placed a glass bead in a stone statue. He was shocked when he saw a large amount of water gushing out of the stone statue.

Could his wife be a water demon?

No! How could Chang'an be a demon!

Lu Jingzhou shook his head and went to another pond to do the same thing.

On the second day, the entire Anding City was boiling.

People looked at the two ponds full of clear water in disbelief and screamed loudly: "How is it possible? Why is there so much water?"

The women were so happy that they knelt down by the pond, drinking from the water with tears streaming down their faces.

Some people also ran home and filled all the pots and jars at home with water, fearing that all the water would be gone in a blink of an eye.

Even the officials in the city were shocked.

They looked at the clear blue water in disbelief and pinched each other's thighs, thinking they were dreaming.

"Could it be that the prefect's ancestors were well diggers? That's why he was able to find the source of the water and let us pump out the water?"

"It's possible! It seems that we didn't find the right place to dig the well before, so that's why the water didn't come out."

Lu Huainian stood next to these people, secretly poking at them, feeling a little helpless.

My ancestors were not well-diggers, but my wife's ancestors might have been.

Thinking about the severe drought in Anyang Prefecture, wasn't it the daughter-in-law's family who used the whole family to solve the drought?

No wonder my son wanted to marry him in Chang'an despite all his efforts. It turned out that he did have merit.

Immediately, several counties under the jurisdiction of Anding Prefecture began to dig ponds in the county seat, and then each county called on villagers to dig reservoirs.

This busy work lasted for several months, and it was not until the following spring that the reservoirs in each county were gradually successful.

Unexpectedly, the water in the reservoir has not yet been replenished, and Chang'an is about to give birth, so Cai and her son's family came to Anding Mansion.

One chapter will be updated tonight, and another chapter will be updated at 12 o'clock tomorrow. Good night, dear friends.